2015 Festival – performance events
Fusing elements of folk, blues, honky-tonk country, straight ahead rock, and jazz, Bucky Halker has recorded a dozen albums since the 1980s, including his recent double-CD,The Ghost of Woody Guthrie
Continue readingBucky Halker presents Rebel Voices: The Songs of Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie
Paul Kotheimer has been writing, recording, and releasing DIY acoustic music since the days of the cassette tape. He is quite possibly one of the finest songwriters you’ve never heard of,
Meet C-U’s newest old-time band! Tiny Arms features Claire Johnson and Amanda Ramey on fiddles and Matt Turino on guitar.
The New Orleans Jazz machine is a Traditional/Dixieland jazz band that began over 20 years go. At the 2015 festival the band will feature the following musicians: Carl Johnson, clarinet/soprano sax;
Fat Fingers Jim is a one-man band who specializes in fingerpicked prohibition-era blues, ragtime, and jazz guitar with foot percussion, harmonica, and the occasional ukulele number. He has been playing
The Young and the Fretless play old-time mountain music on the prairie–a mix of Appalachian Mountain and Midwestern tunes and songs. Members are Lyle Konigsberg (fiddle, banjo), Tom Bassett (fretless banjo,
On Friday afternoon from 4:00pm – 5:00pm in the Busey Bank lobby, get your banking done and your mood lifted while listening to the Spudhunters, who specialize in the traditional dance music
The Wind Symphony is the premier concert band at Urbana High School. The group performs at various events throughout the year including school concerts, community performances, contests, and festivals. Within
Morris dance is a traditional dance from England that has been done for hundreds of years. There are several references to Morris dance in Shakespeare. Each village or region has